A candlelight vigil was held inside the Oak Creek temple, where a gunman shot and killed six members of the Sikh community in August 2012.

Organizers said the vigil's message was to use the pain as inspiration to find a solution to violence. They wanted to encourage neighbors to get to know each other and to find forgiveness for the people behind the explosions.

"No matter who did this, they are not evil. They're misguided. Their acts may be evil, (but) we need to correct this with love and understanding and tell them we are all human beings and we all suffer when these things happen," said Kanwardeep Singh Kaleka, whose uncle was killed in the temple shooting.

Members of the temple have traveled to Sandy Hook in Newton, Conn., following a shooting in December that left 20 children and six adult staff dead. There was also another vigil at the temple for victims of the Azana Spa shooting in Brookfield in October.

On Thursday night, there was a call to visit the Boston Marathon in 2014, or to simply visit communities closer to home to reach out to people affected by violence.